On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, JupiterHost.Net wrote:
> > > perl -mstrict -we 'for(`ls`) { chomp;print `grep foo $_`; }'
> > By which you're basically saying the following non-Perl statement::
>
>
> Right we already covered that a day or so ago, the shell is not the
> way to go:
Oh?
I love Perl, but it isn't the right tool for every problem.
In this case, I think the OP just wanted, in a convoluted way, this:
$ some_program *
I see no way in which Perl can make this simpler. :-)
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